The infrastructure — networks, storage, and computers — allowed Google to crawl the Web and rank the results cheaply.
It exposed the interdependent nature of our infrastructure networks – often the failure of one system affects the operation of another.
Modernising infrastructure networks can be costly, and city governments are increasingly turning to private investors to help finance such projects.
"The inadequacies of Asia's infrastructure networks are a bottleneck to growth, a threat to competitiveness and an obstacle to poverty reduction," the report said.
--Current specapabilities vulnerandlities, caplannedies, and planned upgrades to national telecommunications infrastructure, networks, and technologies used by government and military authorities, intelligence and security services, and the public sector.
ICE stated: "Moving towards a more digitalised economy will enable maximum capacity to be extracted out of existing infrastructure networks, therefore acting as an enabler of growing productivity.
The Obama administration is revving up the nation's digital capabilities, while publicly emphasizing only its efforts to defend vital government, military and public infrastructure networks.
Senegal has additional sources of technical expertise that it can draw on to expand infrastructure networks in the country, as well as a long tradition of engaging the military in building infrastructure.
"We are not where we need to be," on protecting US infrastructure networks against cyber-assault, Alejandro Mayorkas, the deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told the AP.
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